George Harrison: Thing
George Harrison was British musician, former member of the Beatles. Explore interesting quotes on thing.“The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.”
Asked for his greatest ambition. Pop Chronicles, Show 28 - The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers. Part 2 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19783/m1/, ( 1964 https://archive.is/ty0cr, broadcast 1969 http://classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com/2009/04/krla-pop-chronicles-program-1969-2-of-2.html).
Context: If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that.... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.
“That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: "Go away, you bunch of boring people."”
The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 296
The Inner Light (song) (1968), On Transcendental Meditation and teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Source: George Harrison, 1992 in Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 978-0-470-12780-3).